March 4

1. Develop and refine 1 body paragraph using the quotation frame

2. Turn in Trickster Think Sheet & body paragraph

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1. Turn in Vocabulary 26 MDGR

2. Literary Analysis: 1 developed, refined body paragraph

3. Notes binder due Friday

TOPIC: Literary AnalysisLiterary AnalysisLEVEL: Integrating EvidenceIntegrating Evidence

Today’s Objectives

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop characters.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on characterization.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.

The Writing Prompt

• Write an essay in which you analyze a character in Smoke Signals as the one who plays the role of trickster in the story.

Writing Literary Analysis

When you make a claim, you must . . .

1. Support it with evidence.

2. What qualifies as “evidence” in literature?

o Quotes

o Paraphrases

o Summaries of sections

3. In what part of the essay do you present your evidence?

o Body paragraphs

The Quotation Frame

Why? It makes the quote’s relevance and meaning clear to your readers.

Introduce the quote.

“Quote quote quote” (70).

Analyze the quote.

Model 1

Later in the story when Victor, Arnold Joseph’s son, has a conversation with Suzy Song, he states that his father is a trickster: “A father! He had you fooled too, then, ain’t it?” We don’t know what Arnold’s thoughts or reasons were for doing everything he did. However, it’s clear that Victor feels that Arnold Joseph couldn’t have been like a father to Suzy Song when all these years he wasn’t a good father to Victor himself because he left him, years ago. When Victor tells Suzy that he “fooled” her, he . . . .

Model 2

As the story progresses, Victor has a flashback to when he was just a boy. It was Independence Day, and his dad was telling Victor how magical he was feeling: “I’m feeling independent today. . . I’m feeling extra magical, like I could make anything disappear . . . . Wave my hand and then poof . . . . I’m so good I could make myself disappear. Poof. And I’m gone.” This shows that Arnold is a magician, or at least that he thinks he can do magic. A trickster is one who performs magic acts while fooling others into thinking he is a true magician. What Arnold says also foreshadows that he is going to leave. When he says that he is “feeling independent,” it foreshadows that he is going to be by himself and disappear [a true trickster act].

On your shoulder partner’s draft . . .

1. At the bottom of the paper, write your name.

2. Next to your name, write one thing about the draft that you approve of.

3. Introducing the quote: Highlight or draw a box around the language that indicates what the reader should look for in the quote.

4. Analyzing the quote: Highlight or draw a box around language that connects the quote to trickster ideas.

Model 2

As the story progresses, Victor has a flashback to when he was just a boy. It was Independence Day, and his dad was telling Victor how magical he was feeling: “I’m feeling independent today. . . I’m feeling extra magical, like I could make anything disappear . . . . Wave my hand and then poof . . . . I’m so good I could make myself disappear. Poof. And I’m gone.” This shows that Arnold is a magician, or at least that he thinks he can do magic. A trickster is one who performs magic acts while fooling others into thinking he is a true magician. What Arnold says also foreshadows that he is going to leave. When he says that he is “feeling independent,” it foreshadows that he is going to be by himself and disappear [a true trickster act].

On your shoulder partner’s draft . . .

1. At the bottom of the paper, write your name.

2. Next to your name, write one thing about the draft that you approve of.

3. Introducing the quote: Highlight or draw a box around the language that indicates what the reader should look for in the quote.

4. Analyzing the quote: Highlight or draw a box around language that connects the quote to trickster definition.

Model 2

As the story progresses, Victor has a flashback to when he was just a boy. It was Independence Day, and his dad was telling Victor how magical he was feeling: “I’m feeling independent today. . . I’m feeling extra magical, like I could make anything disappear . . . . Wave my hand and then poof . . . . I’m so good I could make myself disappear. Poof. And I’m gone.” This shows that Arnold is a magician, or at least that he thinks he can do magic. A trickster is one who performs magic acts while fooling others into thinking he is a true magician. What Arnold says also foreshadows that he is going to leave. When he says that he is “feeling independent,” it foreshadows that he is going to be by himself and disappear, as a true trickster would.